Northside High School
Fort Smith, AR · High School · Grades 9-12
Northside High School is a high school in Fort Smith, AR with 2,433 students enrolled and a 31% proficiency rate. Part of Fort Smith School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Northside High School is a high school located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The school serves 2,433 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 31% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 69% graduation rate.
74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.
Northside High School is part of the Fort Smith School District in Arkansas. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Northside High School has 2,433 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Fort Smith School District (529 students). Its 31% proficiency rate is 8 percentage points below the district average of 39%. Compared to the Arkansas state average of 43%, the school performs 12 points lower. With a 12.2:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Northside High School has 2,433 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 31% of students at Northside High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Northside High School has a 69% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Northside High School is part of the Fort Smith School District in Fort Smith, Arkansas. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.